This document discusses market segmentation, which involves dividing the overall market into smaller submarkets or segments composed of customers with similar needs, characteristics, and behaviors. The key points are:
Market segmentation allows companies to optimize their products, marketing, advertising, and sales for different customer types. It is done by selecting target markets based on attributes like age, income, location, needs, and interests. Effective segmentation improves profits, product responsiveness, resource allocation, and differentiation. There are several bases and steps for segmentation, and advantages include stronger messaging, identifying strategies and niches, attracting customers, differentiating the brand, and connecting with customers.
2. MARKET SEGMENTATION
Market segmentation means dividing the market into several homogeneous
submarkets or segments.
Market can be broadly classified into two types
consumer markets and organizational markets.
Consumer market covers the ultimate users who normally buy in smaller quantities.
Organizational market coversIndustrial Market, Reseller Market and Government
Market
3. Market Segmentation
Market segmentation is a process that consists of selecting the target market into smaller
groups that share similar characteristics, such as age, income, personality traits, behavior,
interests, needs or location.
These segments can be used to optimize products, marketing, advertising and sales
efforts.
Segmentation allows brands to create strategies for different types of consumers,
depending on how they perceive the overall value of certain products and services.
In this way they can introduce a more personalized message with the certainty that it will
be received successfully.
4. Significance of Market Segmentation
1. Products are designed to be responsive to the needs of the
marketplace
2. Increase Profits
3. Effective Resource Allocation
4. There is Product Differentiation
7. Steps to implement a market segmentation strategy
Define the market
Segment the market
Understand the current market
Build the customer segment
Test the strategy
8. Advantages of market segmentation
Create stronger marketing messages
Find the ideal marketing strategies
Attract potential customers
Differentiate your brand from the
competition
Identify your niche market
Identify your niche market
Create a customer connection